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Jean Rix, Pearl Clunes, Aldith Farrar-Karram, Joan Cooke, and Catherine Dean are all nurses from the West Indies that studied at the St. Michael's Hospital in the 1950s. Jean Rix became the second Black nursing student to graduate St. Michael's…

Jefferson Edwards was an important part of the early Black settlers in Alberta. He was one of the first to settle in Amber Valley and became an important community leader. He had worked hard in order to bring his wife to Canada. He cared a lot about…

Jennifer Hodge de Silva is one of the most well-known Black Canadian Directors in this country. Her works were so revolutionary that they continue to be talked about well past her life. Hodge was a Montreal born creator that transcended in the film…

This newspaper article covers a music and drag venue called the Blue Orchid. The Blue Orchid featured “female impersonators”, as well as musical performers. This article is covering a drag act called the Jewel Box Revue, an early occurrence of Drag…

First Baseball card of Baseball player Jimmy Claxton while he played for the Oakland Oaks

Portrait of John Anderson

John "Army" Howard receives a medal while participating in the Inter-Allied army games from the king of Montenegro, a bronze medal in track

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